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Games like Minotaur

If Minotaur is your kind of game, the closest matches are PERIOD SURVIVAL:Final Trial, Zero Escape: The Nonary Games and Baldr Sky — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, emotional and immersive. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.

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About Minotaur: An adventure game with visual novel-style narrative, Minotaur tells a dark mystery story set in a newly created science fantasy world of synthets, magic-wielding androids and cybernetically enhanced penguins… God, what a (bloody) mess.

2019IndieAdventureEarly Access14.99 USDWindows · macOSby U7 committee
Minotaur — Steam game cover
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Ai companion ollie steals the showBranching narratives feel deeply personalCyberpunk worldbuilding is meticulously detailedAtmosphericEmotionalImmersive

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Steam players who put hours into Minotaur also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.

  1. PERIOD SURVIVAL:Final Trial

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Minotaur fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Early Access with Minotaur.

    Heili, The musician who survived the life-or-death variety show "VIAGRA" and won a massive prize, has once again joined a show where his life on the line! Want to survive? Then, DANCE! PERIOD SURVIVAL:Final Trial is a mystery adventure game you find "Varient" participants through dance battle.

    2025AdventureEarly Access1.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. Zero Escape: The Nonary Games

    WHY THIS

    Shares multiple endings and an atmospheric mood with Minotaur.

    Second-strongest match for Minotaur fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Minotaur.

    Kidnapped and taken to an unfamiliar location, nine people find themselves forced to participate in a diabolical Nonary Game by an enigmatic mastermind called Zero. Why were they there? Why were they chosen to put their lives on the line? And more importantly, who can be trusted?

    2017Adventure5.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. Baldr Sky

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Minotaur.

    Third-strongest match for Minotaur fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Minotaur.

    Kou Kadokura, a cyber officer, seeks to uncover the truth behind the tragedy that ended his once peaceful life. A war looms, and the answers he’s looking for are locked away in him... So why can't he remember anything? Unravel the mysteries hidden in his lost memories through this fast-paced mech action game!

    2019ActionAdventureRPG19.99 USDSteam ↗
  4. Thief's Roulette

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Minotaur fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Minotaur.

    Lady Luck has selected 15 'thieves' to compete in Thief's Roulette. A new world of puzzles and deception.

    2026IndieAdventure16.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Beyond a Steel Sky

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Minotaur.

    Ranked #5 for Minotaur fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Minotaur.

    From multi-award winning Revolution comes ‘Beyond a Steel Sky’, a groundbreaking 3D adventure thriller, set in an AI-driven future. Subvert the world, hack the systems and solve dark conspiracies to uncover the devastating truth.

    2020ActionIndieAdventure34.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. The Red Strings Club

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Minotaur.

    Ranked #6 for Minotaur fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Minotaur.

    The Red Strings Club is a cyberpunk narrative experience about fate and happiness featuring the extensive use of pottery, bartending and impersonating people on the phone to take down a corporate conspiracy.

    2018IndieAdventure14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Technobabylon

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Minotaur.

    Ranked #7 for Minotaur fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Minotaur.

    A cyberpunk adventure game from the studio that brought you Gemini Rue and Blackwell! The year is 2087. Genetic engineering is the norm, and an omnipresent AI powers the city. Take control of three citizens of this world as they struggle to understand a deadly conspiracy.

    2015IndieAdventure14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Minotaur fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Minotaur.

    Investigate murders, search for clues and talk to your classmates to prepare for trial. There, you'll engage in deadly wordplay, going back and forth with suspects. Dissect their statements and fire their words back at them to expose their lies! There's only one way to survive—pull the trigger.

    2016Adventure9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Minotaur at current Steam store prices.

  1. Garry's Mod

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Minotaur on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Minotaur.

    Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.

    2006IndieSimulationCasual4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Vampire Survivors

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Minotaur on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Minotaur.

    Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!

    2022ActionIndieRPG4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. R.E.P.O.

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~53% under Minotaur on Steam right now. Shares Early Access with Minotaur.

    An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.

    2025ActionEarly Access6.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. PEAK

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~47% under Minotaur on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Minotaur.

    PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?

    2025ActionIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Slay the Spire

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~58% under Minotaur on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Minotaur.

    We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!

    2019StrategyIndie6.24 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Inscryption

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~47% under Minotaur on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Minotaur.

    Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...

    2021StrategyIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Cookie Clicker

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Minotaur on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Minotaur.

    An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.

    2021StrategyIndieSimulation4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. WEBFISHING

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Minotaur on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Minotaur.

    WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)

    2024IndieMassively MultiplayerCasual4.99 USDSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. Doki Doki Literature Club!

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Minotaur.

    The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.

    2017IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Life is Strange - Episode 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Minotaur.

    Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.

    2015ActionAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Helltaker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Minotaur.

    Helltaker is a short game about sharply dressed demon girls.

    2020IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Minotaur.

    Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  5. ENA: Dream BBQ

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Minotaur.

    Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.

    2025IndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Minotaur.

    Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!

    2023IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Indigo Park: Chapter 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Minotaur.

    Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.

    2024ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. The Looker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Minotaur.

    You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.

    2022IndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Plays great on Steam Deck

Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.

  1. Beyond a Steel Sky

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Minotaur.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Minotaur.

    From multi-award winning Revolution comes ‘Beyond a Steel Sky’, a groundbreaking 3D adventure thriller, set in an AI-driven future. Subvert the world, hack the systems and solve dark conspiracies to uncover the devastating truth.

    2020ActionIndieAdventure34.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. The Red Strings Club

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Minotaur.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Minotaur.

    The Red Strings Club is a cyberpunk narrative experience about fate and happiness featuring the extensive use of pottery, bartending and impersonating people on the phone to take down a corporate conspiracy.

    2018IndieAdventure14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Technobabylon

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Minotaur.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Minotaur.

    A cyberpunk adventure game from the studio that brought you Gemini Rue and Blackwell! The year is 2087. Genetic engineering is the norm, and an omnipresent AI powers the city. Take control of three citizens of this world as they struggle to understand a deadly conspiracy.

    2015IndieAdventure14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Minotaur

How much does Minotaur cost?
Minotaur is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Minotaur?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Minotaur are PERIOD SURVIVAL:Final Trial, Zero Escape: The Nonary Games, Baldr Sky.
Who developed Minotaur?
Minotaur was developed by U7 committee and published by U7 committee, indienova.

imho.run ranks Steam game alternatives using a mix of collaborative filtering (ALS / iALS / EASE / LightGCN), content scoring over genres, categories, Steam tags, developers, and publishers, plus AI-extracted vibes mined from review text. The page above is generated in seed mode anchored on Minotaur.

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